In the shop straight up building it… and by it, well… I mean my bookcase
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This was a gift a friend requested for is BIL. This based on the Japanese cover. #SSBU #SuperSmashBros #pokemon
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tldr: I began my first wood working project since 2011.
cool story:
a bad person introduced me to the beautiful art of woodworking; I spent 3 years of my life, ages 9 to 11, understanding perception, the saw and the chisel.
there was always music, and time became amorphous… this allowed me to traverse my cognition as a child; so it’s with deep regard that I begin this piece of literature with a thanks:
to all the trees that have protected me, thank you.
as aforementioned, I was guided to a good thing by a very misguided person. for reasons untold I suppressed all memories, including the cognitive skillsets I derived from woodworking. my mind did this for almost all, if not all, memories connected to this bad person.
for the subsequent 10 years their name, their handwriting, their work could be perceived externally by me but my mind protected me from my own memory… likely because it reasoned that I lacked the overall knowledge (internal and external) to process and heal the intricacies of such a complex trauma.
i still believe my mind protects me from memory, but it’s a beautiful paradox that we scientifically owe negative memory to the f(n) of survival.
hence, in both cases, the underlying dominator is: survival.
tangential yip yap aside, I was none the wiser… not a drop of memory would surface for 10 years of my life.
Which is why high school/university felt especially imprisoning, like a very long cold.
last week I was able to speak to my family about those ‘reasons untold’, and this week some form of divine intervention–or if you’re more grounded: internal/external stimuli, gave me impetus to begin my first wood working project since 2011.
thanks4readingthisfar
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I really need to get back to this mirror project I’ve been working on. I love how it slowly reveals itself as I chip and sand away the layers, the scent it gives off as I strip away what’s hidden inside its raw form… the feel of the wood under my touch… the excitement as it bends to my will and becomes my vision.
Midlife-Enigma 💪🤍⚔️🙏👁
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When you have extra butcher block, might as well make some cutting boards. 2 inch thick Ash, rabbetted around the bottom to match each sink so they sit down inside the top. Each also has silicone feet so they can be used on the counter. Finished with 5 coats of mineral oil butcher block sealant.
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Temporary counter, no top, new top… metamorphosis. (The island doesn’t sit low, my son is just huge 😂)
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New butcher block counter for kitchen island. 2 inches thick, 54 inches wide, 136 inches long and right about 400 lbs. Finished with 3 coats Loba brand penetrating oil (with hardener) with “Clay” pigment to lowlight the grain.
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Finished this today! I’m not the best at woodworking but this turned out good! It’s based off a Greco-Roman strigil, and I’m gonna use it to better apply homemade lotion (coconut oil, shea butter, olive oil) to my skin more evenly.
Mainly made of a dry birch branch from my yard, using craft wood and bits of birch to bulk up the handle. Sealed with polyurethane and then paste wax. Tassle is wool yarn.
And yes, I am pathologically jumping from one craft to another.
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Master craftsman workflow: Efficiently jointing a large batch of table legs. Watch the rhythmic precision of flattening stock and the critical ‘sighting’ technique for perfect alignment.
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